Late Night Linux – Episode 369

Hype is really starting to build for Valve’s upcoming Steam hardware and other great gaming news, Stack Overflow is losing to LLMs, old men like Félim don’t want to lose middle click paste, our optimism about Google continuing to release Android source code was misplaced, and Bos ... Show More

It’s that time of year where we look back at our 2025 predictions, and make some new ones for 2026. Will mentioned The Enshittifinancial Crisis and an article about solar panels. Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes See our contact page ... Show More

It’s our 2025 review of Linux and open source news including great gaming news, the impact of AI, the disappointments from Mozilla, the year of Wayland on the desktop, the politics of open source, Intel’s lack of interest, and wins for KDE. Gaming Steam Machine, controller, VR he ... Show More

Why was DeepSeek banned by Italian authorities? What internal proprietary DeepSeek data was found online? What is "DeepSeek" anyway? Why do we care, and what does it mean? Did Microsoft just make OpenAI's strong model available for free? Google explains how generative AI can be a ... Show More

Special guest Glenn Fleishman returns to the show. Topics include China forcing Apple to remove VPN apps from the Chinese App Store, Wi-Fi vs. LTE networking, the open workspaces in Apple Park, Glenn's new letterpress project, the HomePod OS leak and iPhone D22, and more. 

This week Marty and Matt discuss: - Swan adds taproot support and api, no longer supporting ny - Major swiss tech company ceo runs surveillance operation - Malicious actor appears to be attacking Tor - Sparrow Wallet v1.5.3 - Mercury Wallet v0.4.62 - btc-rpc-explorer v3.3.0 - Zap ... Show More

An MFA outage affects Microsoft 365 Office apps. The Biden administration  introduces new export controls to block adversaries from accessing advanced AI chips. A Dutch university cancels lectures after a cyberattack. Three Russian nationals have been indicted for operating crypt ... Show More

Apple disables Advanced Data Protection for new UK users. Paying ransoms is not as cut and dried as we might imagine. Elon Musk's "X" social media blocks "Signal.me" links. Spain's soccer league blocks Cloudflare and causes a mess. Two new (and rare) vulnerabilities discovered in ... Show More